Laptop Product Informaton/ Description?

Christine

I want to do school work, media, youtube, movies, webcam and maybe some kids games on the lap (kid learning game, nothing crazy) but farmville and FB (my son, lol). I want a HP laptop to accommodate all of this but I want to know what is best for all this in each category and why. Processor and why? Memory and why? Hard Drive and why? Intel or AMD and why? GB and why? Read Speed and why? Data Links and why? GHz and why? MB and why? MHz and why? Write speed and why? What is Brightview LED display? What is Window 7 Home Premium? Dual Core and why? Is a HP Pavillion dv6 or 7 good, great or no? Please help me?

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OK lets begin. First off any basic laptop with a build in webcam should be fine for what you say you want to do with it. However to answer your sets of whys...

Processor - I have no preference between Intel and AMD both are good manufacturers and make
great CPU's. How ever Intel has Chips with 2 processors in them and they put 2 on a
computer giving it 4 processors (Quad Core)
Memory - this is where the computer stores everything that is being used(ie computer program
code, images, documents, etc). So the more the better I recommend at least 6GB Ram
Read and Write Speed - this refers to the CD/DVD/Blue Ray player/recorder. The faster this is the
quicker the computer can access the information on the disk and the faster it can write to
the disk. The standard included model is good enough for me. Writing a CD of music
takes my drive about 2 minutes and I donated it quicker than that.
GHz - refers to the processor speed. The higher this is the faster the computer can perform
computations. Again the faster the better.
Dual core - This means it has 2 processor chips and can do twice as many calculations at once or
what usually happens is it can do the same calculations twice as fast. Intel has Core
Duo which is 2 processors on one chip which they double up to Quad Core which is
what I recommend.
Bright view LED - is the display. This model makes the picture bright enough to see in day
light you don'thave to shade the screen. I do recommend not getting the gloss screen if
possible as it causes more glare and in day light conditions it can make it harder to read
the screen.
As far as the OS goes. Windows 7 is the latest and greatest out right now. Some people prefer linux. Also Chrome OS comes out on June 15, 2011. It is such a compact OS and everything stores online it is quicker and easier to use and no matter what computer you go on that has it your documents, games, and settings are already there.

Now HP PPavilion is a low grade computer with low grade part jammed into the smallest case it can fit in. Get a dell.

is the GeForce GTX 460 video card old for June 2012?

Pierre

If so what would you recommend upgrading to, that is quick? Im looking for a really fast video card for Diablo III and Guild Wars 2 I just want to know if mine is old and if it should be swapped since it feels like its performance has been diminishing. I got it along with my notebook/laptop in mid 2011. Thanks!
Oh and im sorry i misstyped this but its a GeForce GTX 460M.
apparantly the 485m is the fastest out right now but i cant find a seller..what else would you recommend? I wouldnt be able to install the card that you just mentioned into my laptop Harin right?

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The gtx 460m is still good for gaming it's just amd took off and jump two series above nvidia and nvidia followed by coming out with the kepler series , the gtx 675m is the fastest graphic card which will be followed by the gtx 680m which will hit the market soon, the minimum nvidia graphic card is the gtx 560m , now unless your laptop is custom made the graphic card in your laptop can't be changed

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Gaming on NVIDIA Graphics Card GeForce GT 230M ?

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Shila

I hav just got my sisters laptop which was bought 2 years back. It is HP pavilion DV7t-3000 laptop with following features:
⢠Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
⢠Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-720QM Processor (1.6GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
⢠4GB DDR3 Samsung 1333Mhz System Memory
⢠1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 230M

I want to know how good this laptop is for gaming purpose? Will it support the new games like NFS Run and others. Is the graphics card good enough for gaming purposes. If not is there any way of updating/replacing it with newer ones.

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The laptop was bought as an end of the model sold mostly 2008 and 2009, and the GT 230M was a lower-mid class release in June 2009. It is at 273 in this GPU to gaming web site:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
It ranks between Intel Integrated graphics HD 3000 Mobility and HD 4000 Mobility
It cannot play the highest graphics new games and is not considered gaming level. NFS Run was released in late 2011 and it appears that GT 230M is just above the game manufacturer minimum so should play on the x768 screen at low settings.
Graphics cards of laptops cannot generally be upgraded. There are cases in newer laptops using standard laptop graphics cards and if a similar model laptop exists, you might be able to use that card.
I don't know what the configurable HP DV7t-3000 offered, but might be another in the GT 2x0M series if it can be found. It is generally not worth trying. I could not find any indication of a higher level card compatible on the internet. You could not upgrade with a newer card. If socketed, only a higher level of the same GPU family.

What can I do to upgrade my laptop? (read description)?

marosam236

My laptop is Acer. (ASPIRE 4937G) (I have it since late 2008)
Processor: Inter Core 2 Duo centrino 2 P8400, 2.26 GHz, 1066 MHZ SFB, 3MB L2 cache
Ram: 3GB DDR3
Graphics: 512MB of dedicated DDR 2 VRAM, up to 1791 MB of shared system memory, NVIDIA GeForce G105M TurboCache
Operating System: Windows Vista
Hard disc: 320 GB
DVD-Super Multi

if you want more specs go to http://www.latest-price.com/latest-laptops-notebooks/acer-aspire-4937g-laptop-price-specifications-and-reviews/

In june 2011 I will buy the Valve complete pack from Steam. My laptop can run all games in the pack up to games produced after Half life 2, i.e. Half life 2 Deathmatch "high latency", CSS "high latency", Day of Defeat: Source "high latency", Team fortress 2 "high latency and a little slow" and Left 4 dead 1 & 2 "high latency and VERY slow"

Now what I want you to tell me is if I can change the processor to i3 for example, what RAM upgarde will be suitable and if I can upgrade the graphics card. I don't care for the price (as long as its cheaper than buying a new laptop of course!), and sorry if it is a long description but I want a good answer too, focus on what I can do to make the games work by improving my laptops specs and how i can decrease my latency. Thanks for the help in advance!
@Josh Courtoreille thanks for ur answer but i don't think i will buy a new laptop before i go to university after 2 years so if u can give me a temporary solution which will be enough to run the games but not necessarily at best graphics and average online latency (less than 200 "my latency is already like 170 in most servers for most Valve games except l4d 1 & 2") will be good enough (this applies to other people that will answer too)

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Sorry to say but your best bet is to purchase a new laptop altogether. A laptop designed for gaming would be much better. Not to mention you can't upgrade your laptop to a Core i3 because the socket types are different. You can't upgrade the graphics card in a laptop because it's part of the motherboard.

Laptops were designed to be a *bit* upgradeable, but only to a certain extent. Your laptop is 3 years old, and therefore it's already out of date. I'm not saying it's junk, I'm saying it's out of date.

So go out and buy a gaming laptop with an i5 Sandy Bridge processor. It will give you way more bang for your buck, even if you have to fork out a larger amount of buck, so to speak. There's not much you can do with your laptop you have now to be able to give you the performance you require to play games.

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